Bottle breaking apparatus



y 1953 L. A. KANDLE 2,645,428

' 7 50m BREAKING APPARATUS.

Filed Feb. 20, 1952 1 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 mmvmn T zmm/rdmle July 14, 195311A; KANDLE BOTTLE BREAKING APPARATUS 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 20,1952 INVENTOR. BY 01/15/41 Kwzd/e E Art Patented July 14, 1953omens-rare s PA ENro c BOTTLE BREAKING APPARATUS Louis A. Kandle,Philadelphia, Pa assignor 46] Manufacturing Company,

. e a. N. J., a corporation of NewJersey.

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Application February 20, 1952, Serial No. 272,608

Claims. (01. 241 ee Fig. 2 is an enlarged, fragmentary vertical sec- 7tional view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view on line 33 on Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 44 on Fig. 2.

'Fig. 5 is an enlarged view partly in horizontal section and partly. intop plan, looking in the direction of line 5-5 on'Fig 1.

The apparatus includes an open-ended, bottlereceiving receptacle II]which is suitably mounted on three or more legs l2 only two of which areshown. The upper end of the receptacle I0 is closed by a door I4 whichis hinged at 16 and which is provided with an extension handle l8.Because of the position of the receptacle I0, the door I4 can move toclosing position by gravity. But, if desired, it may be biased toclosing position by a spring. The lower open end of the receptacle isprovided with a door 20 which is moved to closing and non-closingposition by means of a cable 22, enclosed in a spring sheath 24 andconnected to operating handle or lever 26. The handle 26 is pivoted at28 to a lug 30 carried by the receptacle I 0 and is biased to theposition of Fig. 1, in which it moves lower door 20 to its closingposition by a spring 32 which is connected to lug 3e and to the lowerendof handle 2. The receptacle NJ is provided, at a suitable point abovethe bottom thereof, with a sleeve 36 which is provided at either endthereof with lower and upper passages 38 and 39 for guiding the bottlebreakin plunger 40. The plunger 40 is provided with a fixed collar 42which forms a stop for one end of a compression spring 44 the other endof which abuts the shoulder which defines upper passage 39. The collar42 is provided with opposite pins 45 which project laterally throughslots 48 formed in opposite sides of sleeve 36. See Fig.

1. The pins 46 are adapted to be engaged by the arms 50 of a bail oryoke carried by the lower end of operating handle or lever 26.

Mounted on the outer end of sleeve 36 is a trigger 52 which is fulcrumedat 54. The inner .end of the trigger is bent. downwardy and its outersurface is slanted as at 58. See Fig. 2. The

.outerend of the trigger 52 is biased in clockwise direct'ionby spring56. n i

The operationisas follows: L

The lever 26 is moved, against the tension ,pf spring 32, from the solidto the broken line position of Fig. 1. This causes theyoke 50, whichengages pins 46' to move plunger 40 and collar 42 outwardy and tocompress spring 44. Because the hooked inner end of trigger 52 isslanted.

collar 42 can move past the hooked end of the trigger. But, under theurging of spring 56. the inner hooked end of trigger 52 engages theinner edge of the collar 42 and thus retains the plunger 40 in itsouter, spring loaded position. It will be noted that when lever 26 ismoved to the position of Fig. 2, the lower door 20 is moved, by means ofcable 22, to the open position shown in solid lines in Fig. 2. After theplunger has beenspring loaded as shown in Fig. 2, the lever 26 isreleased and is returned, by spring 32, to the position of Fig. l inwhich the lower door 20 is closed. The

upper door is now open, a bottle to be broken is hooked inner end fromcollar 42 to release spring 44 which now drives plunger 40 against thebottle as shown in broken lines in Fig. 2. When lever 26 is again movedin spring-loading direction, the lower door is opened and the brokenglass drops into a waste receptacle 6!].

The size of the receptacle l0 and its inclination relative to the axisof plunger 46 are such that, when the plungeris released and hits thebottle, there will be no tendency for the bottle to move upwardly. Thisis an added safety measure in case forsome reason the bottle is notsmashed. In practice, the force of the impact is such as to smash anybottle likely to beused for alcoholic drinks or other substances thebottles of which are ordered by law to. be broken as soon'as they becomeempty.

What I claim is:

1. A bottle breaking apparatus includinga receptacle having anupper openend and a lower open end, a first door for closing said upper end, asecond door for closing said lower end, a sleeve communicating with theinterior of the receptalever with, and disengaging it from, saidplunger, said lever being movable to a first position in which it movessaid plunger to an outer position in which said plunger is withdrawnfrom said receptacle and said spring is compressed, and to a secondposition in which it is disengaged from said plunger, anda triggercarried by said sleeve and adapted to engage, and retain, said Plungerin its outer position against the action of said spring, said triggerbeing disengageable from said plunger at will to permit said spring toram said plunger against a bottle placed in said receptacle, thedistance of the lower end of said receptacle to the jp'o'intfat whichthe sleeve opens into the receptacle-being less than the height of abottle to be broken in said receptacle.

2. The structure recited in claim 1 in which said lever is operativelyconnected to said se'cond door in such a manner that, when said lever ismoved in a direction to compress the spring, it opens said seconddoor,and'vice-versa.

3. The structure recited in claim 2 and means for automaticallyreturning said lever to its second position automatically to close :saidsecond door. 3

4. The structure recited in claim 1 in which said trigger automaticallyengages said plunger when the latter is moved to its outer position.

5. The structure recited in claim 1 in which the axis of said receptacleforms an acute angle with respect to the vertical and in which theaxisof said plunger is substantially normal to the axis of thereceptacle.

LOUIS A. KANDLE.

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